Futurism means art of the future, and it is among the avant-garde currents of the 20th century most animated by a revolutionary sense of renewal, rebellion against tradition and trust in the possibilities offered by the future and its technical innovations.
The artists of the first generation - Umberto Boccioni, followed by Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Antonio Sant'Elia, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini - wished to awaken the figurative art often still tied to religious and mythological themes that are far from reality. Futurism broke the patterns of the past, emerging as a precursor of ideas and experiences of Dadaism, the Russian avant-gardism and the neo-avant-gardism of the late twentieth century and becoming the interpreter of an artistic revolution that idealizes a "total" work of art, capable of overcoming the over-restrictive boundaries of painting and sculpture.